Surprise, surprise. The Los Angeles Lakers had the summer blockbuster — a big big budget production unlike any other. The producer somehow tracked down all the available stars, corralled them all together on one team, and bingo! It’s already being heralded as a massive success. The direc[...]
The thing that drew me to the Los Angeles Clippers when I moved west 13 years ago was the voice of Ralph Lawler. I didn’t know many people when I first arrived in town, which meant there were plenty of nights at home before I met the friends who’d become my Los Angeles family. I’d [...]
Diane Pucin of the Los Angeles Times has a long profile of someone who hasn’t missed a single Clippers game in 30 years – play-by-play man Ralph Lawler: Bob Miller, the hockey Hall of Fame broadcaster for the Kings, says there is no harder job than calling the action of an awful team, ga[...]
This season, a procession of visiting coaches delivered identical pregame bytes to the media prior to taking the court against the Clippers. “I told my guys that this is a talented NBA team they’re facing. The Clippers have a lot of guys who can play.” The 2008-09 Clippers’[...]
Imagine it’s Spring 2008. You’re a 22-year-old basketball cautionary tale. A year earlier, you were booted off your college squad for disciplinary reasons. You managed to put together a solid campaign for the Idaho Stampede of the D-Leaguer, but Boise is still a long way from the L. I[...]
First off, tremendous thanks to D.J. Foster for holding down the fort this weekend. The Associated Press’ Jeff Latzke has a profile of Shaun Livingston, making his way back with the Tulsa 66ers: “Livingston has no intention of ever watching the replay of that fateful night, believing tha[...]